The purpose of this investigation was to determine if cycling shoes made with stiff material cause an increase in peak plantar stress over shoes with less stiff material. Shoe stiffness measurements were collected under controlled conditions and in...

Brain derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) is required for the gustatory neuron survival，target innervation, and taste bud maintenance during development. However, whether BDNF has any function in the adult gustatory system in normal conditions or...

This dissertation reports on the fabrication of a bi-directional Knudsen gas pump using a multifunctional nanoporous thermoelectric material. The integration of the channels into the thermoelectric material has the advantages of reducing heat...

Dirt and mud cover piles of tangled tubing, plastic sheeting, cardboard boxes and plastic garbage cans. Pictured are the chilled water pumps that Physical Plant uses to cool the buildings. All of the motors for all of the equipment were replaced....

Background: Dental caries is the most common childhood ailment and one of the most prevalent chronic diseases of people worldwide. Approximately 91% of dentate adults 20 years or older have experienced dental caries. Carious lesions on proximal...

Materials that change shape or dimensions in response to external stimuli are widely used in actuation devices. While plenty of systems respond to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, there is an emerging class of light-driven actuators based...

A white automobile drives through standing water going west on East Bloom Street. A person on a bicycle carrying plastic bags cycles toward the east. Yellow caution tape extends across the intersection of East Bloom Street and Brook Street....

Plastic sheeting hangs from the ceiling of the mechanical level of the University of Louisville College of Education and Human Development (renamed the Woodford R. and Harriett B. Porter Building in September 2010). The floor of the room appears to...

One woman points at a house made of cake (featuring tiled roof, white siding, and columns, with plastic man in doorway, and pine branches, plastic horse, and plastic deer on lawn), while another woman looks on. Signage in background advertises...

The current status of our knowledge of synaptic plasticity comes largely from studies of the hippocampus and the context of learning and memory. We remain largely ignorant of plasticity in other neural systems and contexts. The molecular basis of...

Assemblage of bicycle saddle and handlebars. "Picasso's witty 1943 assemblage entitled Bull's Head is a remarkable example of his genius for synthesis. He has fused the ancient motif of the bull and the traditional medium of bronze with modern...

"It was not until the end of the 1970s, in the work of a new generation of sculptors including Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor, and Bill Woodrow, that the sculptural object as such, in relation to human or urban themes, reassumed...

Sculpture of two interlocking parts, galvanized plaster for the wedge and dental plastic for the base; The following descriptive notes are from: Schwarz, Arturo. The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp. 2nd rev. ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970,...

A single-layer circular cake is sitting on a cake stand. The cake is decorated like a racetrack with a plastic jockey riding a racehorse and tiny flags are placed around the inner circle of the track. Writing on the side of the cake says, "We...

A man walks through flooded parking lot outside the post office in the Houchens Building with white plastic bags around his lower legs. Three other people stand outside the covered doorway of the post office. Photograph was taken in the late...